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  | | Fasti(Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) by Peter Wiseman, Anne Wiseman, Ovid Anne Wiseman Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-282411-0, ISBN: 0-19-282411-2 ""Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing."Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day-by-day account of festivals and observances and their origins, and a delightful retelling of myths and legends associated with particular dates. Written in the late years of the emperor Augustus, and cut short when the emperor sent the poet into ex ..." |
 | | The Peerless Book by Peter Wiseman Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2012 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-258-40679-0, ISBN: 1-258-40679-9 |
 | | The Peerless Christ by Peter Wiseman Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2013 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-4940-2482-6, ISBN: 1-4940-2482-9 "This is a new release of the original 1946 edition." |
 | | Remus(2nd Edition) A Roman Myth by Timothy Peter Wiseman Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 1995 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-48366-7, ISBN: 0-521-48366-2 "Romulus founded Rome - but why does the myth give him a twin brother Remus, who is killed at the moment of the foundation? This mysterious legend has been oddly neglected. Roman historians ignore it as irrelevant to real history; students of myth concentrate on the more glamorous mythology of Greece. In this book, Professor Wiseman provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of all the variants of the story, and a historical expla ..." |
 | | The Myths of Rome(2nd Edition) (CLASSICAL STUDIES AND ANCIENT HISTORY) by Timothy Peter Wiseman, T. P. Wisman Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2008 by Liverpool University Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-704-4, ISBN: 0-85989-704-4 "This is the winner of American Philological Association: C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2005. It is shortlisted for British Academy Book Prize 2005. Widely reviewed and celebrated in hardback on publication in 2004, "The Myths of Rome" is now available in a paperback edition. This major re-evaluation of Roman history and its afterlife in western culture through the mediums of myth and art is fast becoming the standard popular account of th ..." |
 | | The Peerless Christ by Peter Wiseman Hardcover, Published 2013 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-258-94839-9, ISBN: 1-258-94839-7 |
 | | The Peerless Book by Peter Wiseman Hardcover, Published 2012 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-258-40082-8, ISBN: 1-258-40082-0 |
 | | The Peerless Christ by Peter Wiseman Paperback, Published 2010 by Kessinger Pub Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-163-19663-2, ISBN: 1-163-19663-0 |
 | | The Peerless Christ by Peter Wiseman Hardcover, 156 Pages, Published 2010 by Kessinger Pub Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-164-47970-3, ISBN: 1-164-47970-9 |
 | | The Peerless Christ by Peter Wiseman, T. P. Wiseman Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2007 by Kessinger Publishing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-4325-9901-0, ISBN: 1-4325-9901-1 |
 | | An Introduction to Industrial Organic Chemistry by Peter Wiseman Published 1976 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-470-15199-0, ISBN: 0-470-15199-4 |
 | | Ovid(1st Edition) Times and Reasons: A New Translation of Fasti by Peter Wiseman, Anne Wiseman Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-814974-3, ISBN: 0-19-814974-3 "Ovid's Fasti, based on the festivals of the Roman year, is a brilliantly varied and original poem by one of the world's greatest storytellers, written in the late years of the emperor Augustus and cut short (only six books of the planned twelve were written) when the emperor sent the poet into exile. Its tone ranges from tragedy to farce, and its subject matter from astronomy and obscure ritual to Roman history and Greek mythology. Am ..." |
 | | The Battle for Gaul(Reprint) (English and Latin Edition) by Julius Caesar, Timothy Peter Wiseman, Anne Wiseman, Ann S. Wiseman, Noel Perrin Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1992 by David R Godine Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-87923-561-1, ISBN: 0-87923-561-6 "Julius Caesar was for a few years the undisputed master of the Roman world -- devoted to expanding Roman supremacy and his own fame. THE BATTLE FOR GAUL contains seven books of Caesar's Commentaries on his campaign in Gaul from 58 to 50 B.C. in their original narrative sequence. These unparalleled accounts of war in Western Europe in the closing years of the Roman republic are clear and exciting. We feel the immediacy of the moment as ..." |
 | | The Battle For Gaul(1st Edition) by Julius Caesar, Barry Cunliffe, Anne Wiseman, P. Wiseman Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1980 by Chatto & Windus ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-2504-2, ISBN: 0-7011-2504-7 |
 | | Magic in Theory(1st Edition) An Introduction to the Theoretical and Psychological Elements of Conjuring by Peter Lamont, Professor Richard Wiseman, Dr Richard Wiseman Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Hertfordshire Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-902806-50-1, ISBN: 1-902806-50-6 "A useful manual for any magician or curious spectator who wonders why the tricks seem so real, this guide examines the psychological aspects of a magician’s work. Exploring the ways in which human psychology plays into the methods of conjuring rather than focusing on the individual tricks alone, this explanation of the general principles of magic includes chapters on the use of misdirection, sleight of hand, and reconstruction, provides ..." |
 | | The Roman Audience(1st Edition) Classical Literature as Social History by Timothy Peter Wiseman Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-871835-2, ISBN: 0-19-871835-7 "Who were Roman authors writing for? Only a minority of the population was fully literate and books were very expensive, individually hand-written on imported papyrus. So does it follow that great poets and prose authors like Virgil and Livy, Ovid and Petronius, were writing only for the cultured and the privileged? It is this modern consensus that is challenged in this volume. In an ambitious overview of a thousand years of history, fro ..." |
 | | Historiography and Imagination(1st Edition) Eight Essays on Roman Culture (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Studies in History) by Timothy Peter Wiseman, T.P. Wiseman Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1994 by Liverpool University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-422-7, ISBN: 0-85989-422-3 "How did the Romans make sense of their own past? And how can we make sense of it, when the evidence for early Rome and the Republic is so inadequate? In this volume, Professor Wiseman focuses on some of the more unfamiliar aspects of the Roman experience, where the historian needs not just knowledge but imagination too. The first essay in the book, the 1993 Ronald Syme Lecture 'The Origins of Historiography', argues that dramatic perfor ..." |
 | | Catullus and his World(Reprint) A Reappraisal by Timothy Peter Wiseman Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1986 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-31968-3, ISBN: 0-521-31968-4 "This book is an attempt to read the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus in his own context; to look at the poet and his works against the cultural realities of the first century BC as recent advances in historical research allow us to understand them. Catullus' own social background, the circumstances of the literary life of his time, the true extent of his works and the variety of audiences he addressed - these and other questions are exp ..." |
 | | A Companion to Catullus(1st Edition) by Marilyn B. Skinner, William Batstone, Andrew Feldherr, Julia H. Gaisser, Daniel Garrison, Peter Knox, David Konstan, Jeff Tatum, Richard F. Thomas, Peter Wiseman Hardcover, 616 Pages, Published 2007 by Wiley-Blackwell Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-3533-7, ISBN: 1-4051-3533-6 "In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies. Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman ‘lyric poets’ Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poems Grounds Catullus in the socio–historical world around him Chapters challenge received wisdom, pre ..." |
 | | Scintillae 2012 by Peter Wiseman 331 Pages, Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-0-646-58123-1, ISBN: 0-646-58123-6 |
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